“Rocketman” and “Kingsman” star Taron Egerton is set to lead “Tetris,” a film about Dutch-born video game entrepreneur Henk Rogers and the legal battle surrounding the iconic video game in the late 1980s.
Henk was involved in a dispute with a computer programming agency and software companies controlled by late media mogul Robert Maxwell and his son Kevin.
Following a series of rows, he managed to secure the intellectual property rights to the blockbuster Nintendo Game Boy game for himself and its Russian designer and creator Alexey Pajitnov who up until that point hadn’t received a penny.
“Stan & Ollie” filmmaker Jon S. Baird will helm the project which Leonard Blavatnik and Matthew Vaughn will produce. Shooting aims to begin in September.
Egerton remains linked to play nerdy florist Seymour Krelborn in the “Little Shop of Horrors” remake alongside Scarlett Johansson and Billy Porter.
Source: The List
